WikiLeaks Founder Says Guards Against Death Threats

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

WikiLeaks founder says guards against death threats

By Keith Weir and Adam Cox
LONDON/STOCKHOLM | Fri Dec 3, 2010 1:18pm EST
(Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday he and colleagues were taking steps to protect themselves after death threats following the publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables on their website.

One of Assange's lawyers said he would also fight any attempt to extradite his client to face questions over alleged sexual misconduct, adding that he believed foreign powers were influencing Sweden in the matter. Washington is furious about the leak of hundreds of confidential diplomatic cables that have given unvarnished and sometimes embarrassing insights into the foreign policy of the United States and its allies.

Answering questions online from an undisclosed location, the 39-year-old Australian said anyone making threats against his life should be charged with incitement to murder.

"The threats against our lives are a matter of public record, however, we are taking the appropriate precautions to the degree that we are able when dealing with a superpower," Assange was quoted as saying on the Guardian website.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6B21O820101203

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By the way, Assange does not refer to himself as 'founder.' It is an oversimplistic view of how WikiLeaks came about.

[gateley]

1. I don't think it's the threats they have to worry about, but rather a professional

who will come like a thief in the night.

I'd be scared shitless if I were he. Can you imagine having the United States of America after your ass?

[Matariki]

2. It's a sad commentary on our nation.

And sad that we all take it so matter-of-factly that our government would assassinate whistle blowers. I think there was a time when this would have shocked the nation.

[villager]

4. well, once the nation stopped asking serious questions about the assassinations of its Presidents,

Senators, and civil rights leaders, the rest came pretty easily -- and proceeds in unimpeded fashion -- for the Empire...

[gateley]

8. I agree. nt

[yodermon]

3. "founder"

it's hilarious the media's trying to make it about *him*. It deflects attention from the others involved, and the underground nature of the network.
This is true even if he and his giant ego are cooperating with the attention.

[pattmarty]

5. This is utterly ridiculous. Let's see what happens if "death threats".........

.......were out there for Cheney, Yoo, and the federal judge Bybee. This guy is a fucking hero, what the FUCK is wrong with people? I want to leave this country, is there any fucking low IQ fucking rich conservative that wants to pay my and my wifes way? C'mon, I will now gladly go, just write me certified check for my expenses to leave and I am the fuck outa here.


TAKING DONATIONS NOW, FROM ANY OF YOU FUCKTARDS. I DON'T HAVE ANY BIAS AGAINST ANY OF YOU EVIL MOTHERFUCKERS, "MONEY TALKS, BULLSHIT WALKS".

[shoreline]

6. Please, no more from this drama queen...

...if the government if the United States wanted him dead, he would be. Period.

[Imajika]

7. Assange should really release the details of all his security...

..and his whereabouts. He should tell us exactly how he is being protected, his emergency plans to keep his site up, exactly who provided him each leak, etc.

After all, there should be no secrets right? We should all know the truth right?